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•'“RIGHT" TO BE SENT
TO THEGUILLOTINE
Not Inflicted in France.
Say It Is Rank Dis
crimination
PALACES ARE TO BE
REPAIRED AT ONCE
How Clever French Porter Evaded
Punishment for Infraction of
Rules—Experimenting on
Speed of Waves
By PAUL VILL1BRS
Paris, August 30.—(Special.)—French
■uffragists are demanding a "right” which
must be granted oppressed woman-kind,
the right to be sent to the guillotine
when guilty of crimes for which men
are sentenced to the knife. As is the
case in nearly all the most highly civil
ized countries the Frepch courts never
Inflict the death penalty on woman guilty
of capital crime. This, declares some of
the ardent suffragists, is rank discrlmi
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urn. no mure salves that take off the
urrounding flesh, no more bandages.
S'o more knives, files or razors that
uake corns grow, and cause danger of
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nation against woman and con no longer i
be tolerated.
Here are some expressions in the cru
sade to cure this “evil," which has been
inaugurated by the suffragists.
Madame Schmahl, an Knglish woman
long settled in France, who has done more
practical work lor women's rights than
any French woman, as she succeeded in |
getting the measure through Parliament
giving a married woman sole ownership]
of her earnings, writes: “Physical weak
ness cannot be an excuse for a guilty
woman, since she has shown that she
had sufficient strength to commit the
crime for which she has been sentenced
to death.
The Duchesse d't’zes’ opinion is short
and to the point. “It seems to me that
the answer to this question is simple
enough. Le crime n'z pass de sexs."
In an Insult to Woman
fine of the few militant French suffra
'fer^ts. Madame Auclert, writes: 'Both
sexes must be equal before the ballot
box—and before the guillotine. Dr. Palle
j Iter, another suffragist and a lady doctor,
j says: “The sort of gallantry by jpbtcli
| women condemned to death are let off
from the guillotine is an insult to the
femnine sex, just as all gallantry is.
Madame Oddo-Dellou, who is president
of the “French Group of Studies lor the
Civil Rights of Women,” holds the ex
treme view that “If a woman has mur
dered, even though it be her husband
whom she has murdered, she must pay the
penalty, according to the law. It would
not displease us even \liat women's crimes
and misdemeanors should he punished
more severely than those of men, for,
women represent the moral element in
society.” j
Madame Vincent, president of the,
French Woman's Suffrage Union, is op
posed to capital punishment, and in any
case “considers that so long as woman
does not take any part in legislation it
is right that she should not suffer the j
death penalty when condemned to it." j
The novelist, Madame Daniel Lesueur,;
has never dreamt of asking for equality
of the sexes up to and /including the
guillotine. “In all sincerity. I do not think
that the most violent feminist—and 1 am
not that—can really consider that her the
ories have scored because a woman has
been guilotined just like the man.
There is one thing l am quite certain
about, and that is that ,the woman con
demned to death would not be of that
opinion." Madame Lofoy-Allais, an au
thoress. holds much the same view. "A
murderess is as guilty as a murderer. But
so long as woman is treated as an in
ferior by the law men made, she must be
considered less guilty in the eyes of the
law, and must therefore be less punished."
So far as heard from none of the vic
tims of the particular injustice has made
j no complaint.
To Repair Palaces
The Louvre, the Palace of Versailles, j
and the Pantheon will all he placed in
the hands of workmen for alterations and
repairs. Alarmed by the cracks which
have appeared in the ministry of marine,
on the Place de la Concorde, owing t<>
the tunneling and heavy traffic of the
Metropolitan railways in the neighbor
hood, have succeeded in keeping the line
now under construction near the Louvre
over 50 feet away from its foundations.
As an additional safeguard they advocate
the restoration of the original aspect oi
i the Louvre which, as old designs and
' recent evacuations .show, was in part sur- i
j rounded by a dry moat. This moat is
now filled in, and its excavation would,
by creating a kind of air mattress, tend
to weaken any vibration from the under
| ground railway, and at the same tim
would lessen the humidity of the lower
rooms of the Louvre which, since the
great floods of 1910, has increased every
year.
A recent vlist of the historical monu
ments' committee to tlie Palace of Ver
sailles has revealed the necessity *>f t
number of important restorations and re
pairs in the old wing of the palace, which
faces on the Court des Princes, ii was
this portion of the palace which Louis
XIV, in spite of the advice of Colbert
and the royal architects, insisted upon
preserving in the course of his costly and
ambitious building operations. The old
Louis XIII walls were enveloped in new
masonry, and time has dealt harshly with
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F. DREW CAMINUTTI.
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Alius Lola Morris, who was a witness against Maury I. Diggs in the trial just closed in San Francisco, will be
the chief witness In the case against F. Drew Caininetti, who is shown in the photograph in the costume of a Reno
policeman. This picture was taken as a diversion during the stay in Reno.
this combination. When tlie necessary
work has been completed the old wing,
now used as a store, will be added to the
museum and turned unto a picture gal
lery.
The funds at the disposal of the com- ]
mission amount to only $40,000 a year, and
this sum is quite inadequate to carry out
the necessary repairs at Versailles and
the Trianon. The very northern wing
of the chateau is in a very neglected
condition. Its pillars are crumbling under
the weight they have to support, and the
balustrade along the roof Is falling to
pieces. The decay is not confined to the
palace. The stone work of some of the
alleys of the park ons-legged Dianas and
headless Hermes frequently affront the
eye. More serious than this damage to
mediocre statuary of the vegetation upon
the beautiful lead bas-reliefs of Girardon
o nthe fountain of "in. Experiments
are to be made with a \*cw to their pres
ervation and Parliament is to be asked to
increase the annual grant for the upkeep
of Versailles by $RO.OOO.
Had a Right to Be There
A French viscount, wrapped in a blan
ket. was found sleeping on the quay of
the Seine, under the Pont de la Tour
nellc by two police officers and ordered
away. "I am a viscount," he protested.
"and I have a right to sleep here if I
cheese, fn my flat in the Boulevard St.
Germain sleep is impossible from the
uoi.se of the motor omnibuses and tax
icabs.'*
The viscount showed ids card and the
officers apologized for their mistake.
Evaded Punishment
The general manager of one of the
great French railways, who was leav
ing Paris for a holiday, slipped a couple
of francs into his porter's hand. "What,
you accept tips?" he exclaimed, when the
man touched Ids hat. "Don't you know
it is forbidden?" "Oh, yes, sir," was the
reply, "I never take anything from ordi
nary passengers, but as you are a col
league I thought there was not harm.”
Speed of Hertzian
The speed of Hertzian waves has been
made the subject of experiments between
Toulan and Paris by MM. Abrabam and
Dufour and Major Ferrler, and the re
sults, which have been communicated to
the Academic ties Sciences, show the speed
to be 295.900 kilometres a second. I*t is
noted that this result, which is described
as only approximate, approaches very
nearly to the speed of light—299,000 kilo
metres per second. It is suggested that
further experiments may prove the speed
of both kinds of waves to be identical.
Wonders of Lancashire “Wakes”
During his Lancashire tour King
George had an opportunity of witness
ing one of the most interesting sights
in the world, says Tit-Bits. He saw tlie
Lancashire operatives holiday-leaking,
and there is no one who gets more
hearty enjoyment out of his sojourn by
the sea than the mill hand. For 50 or
51 weeks in the year lie puts a little
“brass’ in the going-away club, and
then when his holiday week or fort
night comes round he has a grand
naught and spending freely until he
time, a really jolly holiday, caring
comes to the end of his money; for to
return home with any of his savings j
left is not the way of the Lancashire !
lad or lassie. “The’ mon,” they say, !
“who winna blue his ’wake’ brass
would borrow money from you to put i'
th’ bank.’’
It is not an uncommon thing for a
family of operatives to spend £20 or
£30 in the course of live or six days’
holiday making and one family has
been known to save as much as £74
for a “wake.’’ and return from their
holiday without a single coin left. This,
however, is but typical of the mill hand,
who works hard and plays hard.
Every mill has Us going-away club,
and it is estimated that this year they
have shared out half a million sterling.
Saving clubs of Bolton have paid out
over £50,000 and the banks £20,000 more,
and from Oldham, Blackburn, Preston
and Bury come the same tale of hun
dreds of thousands of pounds being
paid out by clubs to the happy-go
lucky mill hands, who from July to
September invade mostly the northern
seaside resorts.
During the last two dr threo years,
however, they have varied the* usual
holiday at Blackpool or Douglan by go
ing farther afield, anj, one finds them
holiday making at such places as
Folkestone, Deal and Dover, Torquay,
and Weston-super-Mare, while many of
them indulge in excursions to Holland,
France and Belgium,
Blackpool, however, is still first fa
vorite with the majority, and it is es
timated that that popular resort is in
vaded every week by at least 50,000
operatives. There Is no piece like
Blackpool in their eyes, ands appar
ently in the eyes of other penile, too:
for it is a bad season for Blackpool
when its total number of visitors is
fewer than 4,000,000.
The mill girl is even more fiithusi
astic in regard to saving for holidays
than the men. and. no matter what
she may earn or what her weekly ex
penses are. she will find ways and
means to put by a little for the going
away club. It may only be a few cop
pers, but it all “mounts up,” hs Jthey
say, and she generally finds herself with
£3 or £4 for herself wnen the holiday
week comes round.
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BLIND, STILL TELEGRAPHS
Expert Operator Takes 10,000 Words
of Code News a Day
Bethlehem, Pa.. August 30.—(Special.)
Stanley K. Schnabel of this place, pre
sents a striking example of a person who,
though suddenly and permanently afflict
ed. has been able to triumph over diffi
culties.
Mr. Schnabel is an expert telegrapher,
employed by a. news organization, and
several months ago was stricken blind.
Despite this handicap he la still able to
a tend to his work.
(>nly one who is fully acquainted with
the difficult work that press association
telegraphers have can appreciate the
wonderful feat Mr. Schnabel Is able to
accomplish each day. running his type
writer rapidly In order to take down
more than 10,000 words of code news and
averaging less lhan a break a day.
Mr. Schnabel's affliction came upon
him about a year ago. wlie ntlio sight of
the right eye went first and the left eye
Is so affected that he cannot see the key
board of his typewriter. iWth Indomita
ble courage he set to work and soon had
acquired the touch system, so that now
he Is able to turn out copy with very few
mistakes in it.
With the loss of his eyesight other of
his senses have become remarkably de
veloped. Slightly deaf all his life, Mr.
Schnabel has fully recovered his hearing,
which hus reached so fine a point that he
can hear a pin fall that has been dropped
on a soft carpet. Ills memory has also
developed considerably, rnd he can now
remember facts and figures practically
with ease, whereas It formerly was the
hardest kind of task.
Beavers Triumphant
Deadwood, S. D„ August 23.—(Special.)
Persistence on the part of of a colony
of beavers in Spearflsh canyon in several
point that invariably flooded the i
triumphed over the efforts of the county,
and County Commissioner Malkson. who -
has charge of that section, has decided
to Jet the beavers have their liomo and
the county will build a new stretch JJ
road.
<'ommiasiotier Malkson some time ago
determined to prevent the beavers from
flooding the road. Three times he had
the ram tom down, but within a couple
of daws the hard working little animals
had rebuilt It and each time the road
was washed out.
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From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
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